Racial Context and Crime Reporting: A Test of Black's Stratification Hypothesis

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-293

  Xie, Min ^a   Lauritsen, Janet L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Race of offender; Race of victim; Racial context; Racial inequality; Reporting crime to police; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860448072     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-011-9140-z     Document Type: Article

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